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[Q] New to rooting; best Gingerbread ROM?

Hi there,
I'm very new to Android and the rooting procedure. Basically, I switched from an iPhone to an HTC Inspire 4G after 4 years.
I'm going to try and root my phone tonight, and also unlock it and put HTC Sense 3.0 on it, but one thing I have been unable to find is a stable ROM for Android 2.3 that is as close to the stock version as possible. It may be right under my nose, but I haven't had any luck. If anyone could provide a download link, or a URL that points to where I could find one, that would be very much appreciated! Thanks!

Best one for HTC sense 3 is CoreDroid. My opinion.
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elijahpr said:
Hi there,
I'm very new to Android and the rooting procedure. Basically, I switched from an iPhone to an HTC Inspire 4G after 4 years.
I'm going to try and root my phone tonight, and also unlock it and put HTC Sense 3.0 on it, but one thing I have been unable to find is a stable ROM for Android 2.3 that is as close to the stock version as possible. It may be right under my nose, but I haven't had any luck. If anyone could provide a download link, or a URL that points to where I could find one, that would be very much appreciated! Thanks!
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It might be best for you to not jump right into rooting your phone. Spend some time seeing how your phone works out of the box and what you might want to change. During that time spend time on this forum just reading and gathering knowledge. The more you read, the more answers you will already have.
Just my suggestion.
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I really like the new sense 3.0 functions that are ported on the coredroid 6.5. P.S. It might be better to root before you get all your apps setup and installed like I did. Then I had no way of backing up since I had no root access and had to setup everything from scratch again.

Thanks for all the help guys.
darkside, I've actually had to phone for about a month now. Funny you mention using it and seeing what I'd want to change, cause one of the first things I did after a week of usage was make a small list of just those things haha.
In addition to unlocking the Inspire, and putting Sense 3.0 and 2.3 on it, the only other thing I really want to do is get all of that annoying AT&T bloatware off. That, and find something that can fix the battery life. I have no idea how to do either, so I think I will take everyone's advice and do some more reading before attempting this.

I'm using MIUI and its doing excellent for me.
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darkside1904 said:
It might be best for you to not jump right into rooting your phone. Spend some time seeing how your phone works out of the box and what you might want to change. During that time spend time on this forum just reading and gathering knowledge. The more you read, the more answers you will already have.
Just my suggestion.
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+1
Excellent advice.
You really, really, really should have a baseline by which to judge subsequent roms you flash.
Otherwise, you'll never have a full sense of what's working better or worse than something else.
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XAviierG said:
I'm using MIUI and its doing excellent for me.
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Are you using the MIUI Rom here in the US on AT&T....and do you have any problems with apps in the app market? I want to find a decent GB rom but it seems like most are geared more toward the UK.
For example I'm using ClearDroid, I do a search in the market for the "Xfinity TV" app. It shows right up...I jump on LeeDroids rom, and no "Xfinity TV" app to be found.....And thats with installing Morelocale2 before setting up my google account. Obvioiusly I could care less about the app....it just makes me wonder what other apps are hidden from my view.

S.Reno9 said:
Are you using the MIUI Rom here in the US on AT&T....and do you have any problems with apps in the app market? I want to find a decent GB rom but it seems like most are geared more toward the UK.
For example I'm using ClearDroid, I do a search in the market for the "Xfinity TV" app. It shows right up...I jump on LeeDroids rom, and no "Xfinity TV" app to be found.....And thats with installing Morelocale2 before setting up my google account. Obvioiusly I could care less about the app....it just makes me wonder what other apps are hidden from my view.
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The us version on att and its FLAWLESS AMAZING!
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Best thing to do is try some out and see what you like.

i tell you who has the answer to all yer problems..
this guy is my flippin hero! gtg465x!
he's built a 2.3 rom that was meant to feel like a stock update for the inspire 4g on att.. no craziness, great battery life, completely stable.. soon as i get some jack i'm gonna pay this guy i'm so tickled with it.
get that, and lay seo's sense 3.0 stuff on top = orgasmic
this is the rom you need:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057060

XAviierG said:
I'm using MIUI and its doing excellent for me.
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+1 big time. Using MIUI on AT&T, works great! It's too smooth not to use.
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SmittyRN said:
+1 big time. Using MIUI on AT&T, works great! It's too smooth not to use.
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Couldn't say it better myself
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1066978

Well, finally rooted my Inspire and settled on the RCMix3D ROM for HTC Sense 3.0 and Gingerbread. Thanks everyone!

The MIUI patient treatment center --

I loaded up the latest MIUI on my friends inspire, very jealous and feeling animosity. So we shall continue to pain our heats with our favorite MIUI features. Mine happen to be the endless supply of lockscreens and the smoothness of the UI , yours?
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Gonna be awhile before we have a fully working miui port for our tbolts im afraid.

fixxxer2008 said:
Gonna be awhile before we have a fully working miui port for our tbolts im afraid.
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i loaded it on my friend's inspire too. its very very clean that's my favorite part, the transitions are cool looking and the lock screen & notification pull down are nice, but after 20 minutes i got really annoyed at the UI. It resembles the iPhone UI a little too much.

I've never actually used an MIUI ROM before, but I have used some of the apps. The camera, music app, and the web browser are awesome... I can't wait for a full working MIUI ROM so I can try it out, however long that might be

transitions are nice @ lippstuh - - i dunno i got annoyed with it as well, but i know if i had it on my phone give me 20-30 minutes and it won't even look the same

fixxxer2008 said:
Gonna be awhile before we have a fully working miui port for our tbolts im afraid.
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yeah which is why i made this thread, on a positive note to celebrate what we love about MIUI, everything MIUI related nowadays on the threads is negative..

So that guy who "got it working"... that was all just BS?

g00s3y said:
So that guy who "got it working"... that was all just BS?
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Yep, he is now banned from XDA and IRC

g00s3y said:
So that guy who "got it working"... that was all just BS?
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that guy will burn in hell for eternity for the thousands of emotions he played with that day --- that is a for sure thing --- i promise.

Ah, figured. Something a bit fishy about a new guy coming from out of nowhere getting data working on a rom experienced devs are having trouble with.

Just got thru trying out vc port of miui ... I want it bad now
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What is there not to like about MIUI?
But really, one of my favorite things about it is how easy it is to change themes. Then take into consideration that there are so many and it's freaking awesome.
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Good positivity. I love the pull down toggles, the way it's designed
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I can't wait to have MIUI on my phone.

g00s3y said:
Ah, figured. Something a bit fishy about a new guy coming from out of nowhere getting data working on a rom experienced devs are having trouble with.
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In all seriousness about that, I tried merging of Cyanogenmods radio interface layer and i had data for about one minute and then I wasn't able to bring it back. I am not claiming to have a working solution since I am extremely new to developing and was just using newb ingenuity. The only problem that I ran in to AFTER the fact was that my dumb old phone wouldnt go back in to 4g, no matter which rom and radio I used lol! I <3 MIUI

htcdesirezgeorge said:
In all seriousness about that, I tried merging of Cyanogenmods radio interface layer and i had data for about one minute and then I wasn't able to bring it back. I am not claiming to have a working solution since I am extremely new to developing and was just using newb ingenuity. The only problem that I ran in to AFTER the fact was that my dumb old phone wouldnt go back in to 4g, no matter which rom and radio I used lol! I <3 MIUI
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Share that with droidvicious. Please!
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idkwhothatis123 said:
Share that with droidvicious. Please!
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How do I look him up, I'll be more than happy to.

htcdesirezgeorge said:
How do I look him up, I'll be more than happy to.
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He is in the dev forums. He is working on the miui port. Its called vicious-miui.
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1172235
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lippstuh said:
It resembles the iPhone UI a little too much.
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This was my thought after looking at some of the screenshots as well - however, it doesn't mean I won't be giving it a fair chance when we have a working build

ROMs....cm7 and stuff

2nd video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWMSJzwLndY
I'll probably get bashed because apparently people in this forum don't like updates on a very popular rom, but oh well, I just wanted to share the new video.

Just saw this about ten minutes ago and it looks close to be nightly ready.

Bashing on aosp hahaha
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stanleynhan said:
Bashing on aosp hahaha
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Yeah, I saw that and I thougt it was hilarious.
It needs to become a permanent Easter egg in our build.

gbzbar said:
Yeah, I saw that and I thougt it was hilarious.
It needs to become a permanent Easter egg in our build.
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someone tell me what is so special about this looks like all the other roms for gb

CM is basically vanilla Android with feature enhancements and higher amounts of customization throughout the system.
It's not really for people looking for effects and bling like what Sense is. It's more for people that are into getting straight to the point and customizing the phone to their exact needs.

Did he say 'unofficial CM build' at the end, at about 1:55? I thought this was official...?
Nonetheless, this looks awesome. Can't wait for it
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redbullcat said:
Did he say 'unofficial CM build' at the end, at about 1:55? I thought this was official...?
Nonetheless, this looks awesome. Can't wait for it
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not official till its out

Does that hand belong to kmobs?
cp3o said:
someone tell me what is so special about this looks like all the other roms for gb
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Its vanilla android on steroids. There are many, many awesome under the hood modifications to this.
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dr.m0x said:
Does that hand belong to kmobs?
Its vanilla android on steroids. There are many, many awesome under the hood modifications to this.
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Yes, like hardware acceleration if I heard right!
Matt

HA!
Hardware acceleration would make it faster than the GS2!!! And a speeding bullet

I've run CM on all my previous phones. I'm really looking forward to flashing nightlies again. Patience is a virtue

Cant wait...
Too tired of sense...
I m dying for it....

Can't wait!

pnyppon said:
Too tired of sense...
I m dying for it....
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Your options aren't HTC Sense or CM7 with ADW. There are plenty of ROMS, Launchers and options.
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BonesRed said:
Your options aren't HTC Sense or CM7 with ADW. There are plenty of ROMS, Launchers and options.
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what roms around here thats not sense??

None that work.
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What does he mean in the video when he says hardware accelerated video when referring to youtube videos?
What would hardware accelerated youtube videos look like?

For me, I find all the Sense widgets to be useless. At first, they are neat. Later, when my phone begins to slow down, I get to asking myself "dual cores, 1.2Ghz and I see lag!?".
Speed comes first, in my book. Then come all the neat features. I have yet to try CM, but I hear so much that I will flash it as my first ROM ever. If I dont like it, I will just stick with stock.
Matt

phonegod said:
****s ugly to me reminds me off my first android phone i understand all the customizations but its still plain android
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But that's the point of Android. It's barebones, but the user makes it look beautiful. Fast and beautiful. This is why I use Android. I can make it look like iOS *shudder* or webOS, or WP7, or something new and completely different.
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Miui vs Sense 3.0/3.5

Go! Personally I am using Miui right now. I started on VU and then gave Miui a try. It feels a but quicker on Miui and their seems to be a lot more customization
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Oh boy. I see this going south. I LOVE miui because it has sms popups, themes galore, a nice dialer, and awesome support.
Sense is beautiful, has many variations, the system apps and widgets go on forever, and it really shows off what android is capable of visually. That said, it seems to take a tremendous amount of work by devs to make sense ROMs easy on the ol' battery. That, from my point of view makes them bloated. But, they can be made into fantastic daily drivers as has been shown repeatedly.
Lately I've used MIUI.
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Supamike88 said:
Go! Personally I am using Miui right now. I started on VU and then gave Miui a try. It feels a but quicker on Miui and their seems to be a lot more customization
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Stop creating multiple threads about the same stupid topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345250
What do other people's opinions matter anyway? Try both, decide for yourself, end of discussion.

TeeJay3800 said:
Stop creating multiple threads about the same stupid topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345250
What do other people's opinions matter anyway? Try both, decide for yourself, end of discussion.
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Sorry wasn't getting a response here so I put it in the questions section. Other peoples opinions interest me. Maybe they utilized something in a ROM I didn't
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TeeJay3800 said:
Stop creating multiple threads about the same stupid topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345250
What do other people's opinions matter anyway? Try both, decide for yourself, end of discussion.
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I agree even tho it's sense hands down
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Supamike88 said:
Go! Personally I am using Miui right now. I started on VU and then gave Miui a try. It feels a but quicker on Miui and their seems to be a lot more customization
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wow..... seriously?

I knew my time would come. A fun post about people saying what they like about great roms gets turned into this. Remember guys, this if serious. Android isn't about having fun.
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Supamike88 said:
I knew my time would come. A fun post about people saying what they like about great roms gets turned into this. Remember guys, this if serious. Android isn't about having fun.
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.... as teejay said, you basically posted the same thing twice..

saranhai said:
.... as teejay said, you basically posted the same thing twice..
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I'm sorry about that. Probably should've deleted the one in this section. Sorry again
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Supamike88 said:
I'm sorry about that. Probably should've deleted the one in this section. Sorry again
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You probably think that TJ is being harsh and ruining a fun thing. But you have to take into account that redundant threads like this pollutes the site and when a noob tries to do the right thing and search for a thread he/she needs it'll be harder to find. And all he/she will do is ask the question in a thread that's been answered many times. Thus, it all just creates the circle of problems.
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I ran both.
MIUI on Nexus One, which is incapable of properly running even Sense 2.1, having no devs to completely solve everything (trackball wake) and no graphical power to move it smoothly.
Sense 3.0 on MT4G, which is capable of running it fast and smooth.
Personally, I prefer Sense - it is visually and functionally better. While MIUI fixes a lot of things that stock Android did wrong (T9 dialer, notification bar toggles, launcher - in the aspect of adding widgets, smoothness and effects), it still falls short when it comes to Email, text selection (standard Android has selection position bugs and isn't nearly as comfortable as Sense), and just overall visual experience. But MIUI is small and fast, and on older phones it counts - and it supports A LOT of phones that have no better options. So, for me, if the phone can't run Sense or TouchWiz properly - MIUI would be the next best thing to choose.

I go to miui once in a while but find myself coming back to sense 3.0/3.5 only because its just so awesome... Sense is hands down the best thing that happened to android it adds so much to android... Basic stuff like browser ,mail, contacts integration made perfect.... Sense makes android beautiful with brains but miui on the other side is definitely for lower power phones like say moto defy or something like that... Btw love both of them
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Good to be back

So, After a 2 year exile from XDA i will soon be gracing my presence again when i collect my HTC One this weekend.
Looking forward to seeing how Android and HTC have improved over the last few years, My last HTC phone was a HTC HD2 with WinMo 6.5 but i did port Android onto it back then. Have had an iPhone for the last 2 years and as much as i love it, i thought it was time for a change.
I spent a lot of time on this forum back then, and im sure i will be popping up here to see whats going on every now and again.

Think my signature could do with updating too

Welcome back, I'm relatively new on this forum but I'm loving people and discussions here so far. Very nice place.

djchubbs said:
Think my signature could do with updating too
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Leave it I read through both threads man what a blast from the past awesome!

Welcome back
Man I loved the winmo sense on the HD2, especially with cookie's home tab. Wish there was an android launched like it!
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thom109 said:
Welcome back
Man I loved the winmo sense on the HD2, especially with cookie's home tab. Wish there was an android launched like it!
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Cookies Home Tab, wow, I'd forgotten all about that, even though I used it for a while.

Do you feel this way too?
yes yes i know..i'll go squat in a corner.